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mm c/> C0 o 2. ff & 9 THE AMERICUS WEEKLY TIMES-RECORD ER. THURSDAY. MORNING MAY 12. 1910. C vr s. B * O* 05 n> *3 & c m £ o. ^ to n a TJ bi » » B. op g ^ *• ®* » 0 O M a ^ p W o u D. B a a£ PS^-i 2 ^ R p » o » P„ g ™ GO 2 CP C/5 PT /> « S3 ». C/5. ■€/* > £ > £ > H N M W W Ul C Ul O N © © © © cn © o © © o gsggg s 8. g § 8 CO* » » » to w y w w y d g. g e g. >-• js* i—. ST CO CO » 60 o* S* ®* ®* 5* a> ft ft ft O S.2.0'0 a* ss ss tft (j 2 (5 (5 (J S ? J ft 2 o, p* o* o, o* cn ft ff b* : * 1 & o £! o Z a w ft « sr fD 3 V4 GO B c 09 rT 3 cr CD £• ea §. w w GO 0 O fl) i* N». *1 ft co *0 GO ft- w— o o P* ft ft g ® pr ^ 0 O •-*» 0 HH B* p r W o ea i§ 3 p ft ft GO Z o w P* o go O rt CL * g« sr 5* go p a ® GO GO ft jf ca < o CD ft N» i PT 5 OB ga “ r* B 8 ■e « s GO P ft ft ft ft z 9 ? GO >■» ft a e ft ft- & o’ C3 s P GO 3 0 c ft. cr O* ea 'fi P ft ft <1 ft •-» §■ O ! * 1- P se.- & ft B 23 S3 P» fD HIE ROADS OF SUMTER Atlanta Paper Has Edito rial Comment. Sumter county’s really magnificent i tare been tbs subject of many ringing editorials In the Atlanta Con stitution' and others of Georgia’s big dallies that stand for progress and the enhancement of land values by the building of good roads. Sumter coun ty Is in the limelight Sumter county leads all Georgia— barring no other county—on the good roads proposition. A news story published recently In the Tlmes-Recorder Is taken by the Constitution for edltonlal commend. This was published yesterday in doa ble column form and in capital let ters, as follows: “Down in Sumter county there Is farmer richer by $3,000 because of a specific good roads movement the he couldn’t see his way clear to old. ' • /■ "If that Is not argument and conver sion in one breath, we would not know where to turn for either. "This particular farmer, as report ed by our correspondent at Amerlcus, has always been skeptical concerning the value of good roads or the divi dends from road Improvement "He has persistently been endeav oring to dispose of his 800 acres at ISO. But highway facilities were lack ing, and there we e no purchasers. "A short time ago a roadway was projected which should pass by his place and link it to civilisation. "Farmers contlglous, realising the immense value of the improvement gave freely of their land for the right- of-way. "So Joined was this man to his Idols that he refused to cede even a small strip of that land be to sell and couldn’t •The road building proceed* 4 less of bis declination. "A few days after It was he was offered $40 an tet^ entire tract which, P r * could not sell at $30. w. p wsriick’s Sale no* 1